Is there a drugstore-shopping American who has never heard of the Whitman's Sampler? Seems like it's been around forever, and I tend to think of it as the affordable gift children on allowances give their mothers for special occasions. But I'm stumped as to how they've endured all these decades because the candy is pretty bad. I mean, does anyone really like it?

This here is a smaller, individual-sized version of the classic, larger Sampler box. Somehow I never had the heart to buy the bigger one. Not sure why....